The Lighthouse Crime X
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- True Crime
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Theo Hayez is missing in Byron Bay, a beautiful beachside town on Australia’s most easterly mainland point, frequently in the spotlight for its famous residents. Theo's from Brussels. He's 18 and on a backpacking holiday when he vanishes in May 2019. Behind the scenes local volunteers who've never met Theo begin searching and investigating with his family, parallel to a major police investigation.
At the request of Theo's family, The Australian newspaper's national crime correspondent David Murray joins the unofficial search party to investigate the mysterious disappearance for a new podcast series, The Lighthouse. Theo left a local bar around 11pm. As the search narrows to the area around the 118-year-old Cape Byron Lighthouse, a range of theories emerge.
From the newspaper that brought you The Teacher's Pet and Who The Hell is Hamish, The Lighthouse investigates all possible scenarios as it takes you inside an extraordinary search.
To read more about the disappearance of Theo Hayez, and access exclusive photos and video material, go to www.lighthousepodcast.com.au.
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1 - Lost in Byron Bay
Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez dropped into Byron Bay in late May 2019, enticed by the town's unique allure of bohemian life, beautiful surf beaches and a sprinkling of international celebrity glamour. Then he disappeared without a trace.
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2 - Tracked
As word of Theo Hayez's disappearance spreads around Byron Bay, concerned locals leap into action. One local suspects drink spiking and leads a small search party through bushland near the centre of town, where there’s a maze of occupied and aband...
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3 - Ransom
Once Theo's family cracked his online accounts, they had a clearer picture of his path on the night he disappeared. So, aided by the local community, they begin to retrace his steps. But after the local police abandoned their search, and psychics ...
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4 - Into the dark
Byron Bay is known as an tourist town where celebrities and influencers spend their summers. But as the locals know, there's a darker side to life here. Retracing Theo's path through the Arakwal National Park raises more questions and cont...
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5 - The cliffs
The mystery of an abandoned campsite next to the Tallow Beach sand dunes adds new urgency to the search for Theo. Who lived there, and did they know anything about what happened to him the night he disappeared? And some recent history around the Cosy C...
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6 - The way forward
Six months after Theo’s mysterious disappearance, fresh revelations are opening new possibilities on what happened that night in Byron Bay. His father Laurent returns to Australia to walk through the bush at night for the first time, and the l...
Customer Reviews
portrait of a young man as a community
this is an in-depth look at a locality and a community, with a vanishing at its heart. really well made, moving, informative.
Every lead followed
I thought this was riveting as the podcaster took us along on the journey of exploring every possible scenario. I was fascinated to learn they could follow along his path and know when he was walking and when he was running. At the outset, we’re told that the podcast is an attempt to garner as much information as possible to help solve the mystery. Some reviews were negative, not ‘entertaining enough’ for them I suppose, but every moment of it, I was thinking of this poor family, and how I would feel in their situation, and how grateful I would be if someone was going to such lengths to question everything and follow down every possible lead.
First couple of episodes were good then...
I have lost so much time listening to randomly edited dialogue about google tracking. No one has interviewed anything with substance. Homeless guy in the middle of the forest’s solar light, (yawn) taking about why he moved from the big city. Vines/brush up off the edge of the beach where he was apparently there, and everyone but an authority of the google tracking discussing the field or path.
Honestly, poorly written and edited.
The investigation is clearly done by amateurs and the end likely will be that the poor lad was taken away in the tide.